We Need a Revolution of 4K!
Don’t panic or stop reading, we used the word ‘revolution’ in the title and though admittedly it’s provocative being less than a week from the…
Immersive VR and 360 video at streamable bitrates: Are you crazy?
There have been many high-profile experiments with VR and 360 video in the past year. Immersive video is compelling, but large and unwieldy to…
4 Facts about 4K
We recently did a little investigative research on the state of 4k and here are four highlights of what we found. To start, as an industry,…
Can we profitably surf the Video Zettabyte Tsunami?
Two key ingredients are in place. But we need to get started now. In a previous post, we warned about the Zettabyte video tsunami – and the…
Data Caps, Zero-rated, Net Neutrality: The Video Tsunami Doesn’t Take Sides
We Need to Work Together to Conserve Bits in the Zettabyte Era Over the past year, and again last week, there has been no shortage of articles…
Translating Opinions into Fact When it Comes to Video Quality
This post was originally featured at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/translating-opinions-fact-when-comes-video-quality-mark-donnigan In this…
VCT, the Secret to Confident Subjective Video Quality Testing
We can all agree that analyzing video quality is one of the biggest challenges when evaluating codecs. Companies use a combination of…
Will Virtual Reality Determine the Future of Streaming?
As video services take a more aggressive approach to virtual reality (VR), the question of how to scale and deliver this bandwidth intensive…
The TV of Tomorrow Needs Standards Today: Why the streaming video industry must work together to solve video delivery quality issues
Nearly 50 percent of Americans have an entertainment subscription service like Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Hulu, accessed via a connected…
Applications for On-the-Fly Modification of Encoder Parameters
As video encoding workflows modernize to include content adaptive techniques, the ability to change encoder parameters “on-the-fly” will…